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            JavaScript Client Pages
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        <h1>Welcome to JavaScript Client Pages</h1>
        <h2>What are JavaScript Client Pages?</h2>
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            <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/JSClientPages">DiXon-JSClientPages</a> is a free open-source
            Web development library that makes client-side Web development easier by using the same
            techniques for client-side content generation as the ones used on the server side in common
            Web development platforms, albeit with a different syntax.
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            JSClientPages is to JavaScript as 
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            <li><a href="http://www.asp.net">ASP.net</a> is to .NET</li>
            <li><a href="@">JSP</a> is to Java</li>
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                <a href="#">Rails</a> is to Ruby
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                    <span class="note">Note:</span> JSClientPages does not include an MVC framework, although
                    the development of one is currently being considered. However, it does provide similar
                    content templating functionality.
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        <h2>About DiXon</h2>
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            <span class="emphasis">DiXon Generation 1</span> is a highly portable markup-to-script compiler that
            converts XHTML pages with advanced presentation logic implemented as either inline code or XML tags 
            from the <samp>js</samp> namespace to compact DOM-generating code that can then be used to dynamically
            render content in an arbitrary container on your Web page. It can run on any platform that has a 
            standards-compliant XSLT processor, and at the moment, bindings exist for:            
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                <a href="http://www.micrsoft.net">The .NET framework</a> 
                (with or without <a href="http://www.asp.net">ASP.net</a>)            
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            <li><a href="http://www.php.com">PHP</a></li>
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        <h2>Getting Started</h2>
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            To start developing rich AJAX-enabled Internet applications with <samp>DiXon-JSClientPages</samp>,
            consult the following resources:
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            <li><a href="Documentation/Index.html">Bundled Documentation</a></li>
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                Programming Examples
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                        Example 1 - Table Generation 
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                        Example 1 - Employee List 
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            <li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/JSClientPages">Project Home Page</a></li>           
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            <span class="copyright">DiXon-JSClientPages &copy; 2008 by Artem Ploujnikov. All Rights Reserved.</span>
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